A blog is a hard thing to waste

It is incredibly hard to blog when you do not have internet hooked up to your computer. Probably the biggest thing that has happened in the past month is a strong desire to seek the lord. I wished for that desire for the past two years. For those 2 years despite all my efforts, I felt so distant from the Lord.

One day, about two weeks ago, I set down and started reading this book again called 'A Search for God Knows What?' by Donald Miller. The thing that stood out to me the most and changed my perspective was realizing that Christianity really is relational and not a formula. I think that I have been living like Christianity was a formula for my whole life. Just a set of rules and not a God who cares for me and is not coming down on me whenever I screw up. He loves me in spite of all the shit I do. Alot of this is so clear in the Bible but I think the traditions of the church sometimes tend to erase much of that in peoples minds. It seems all about rules sometimes.

Jesus hung out with the dregs of the earth, not the upper class. Sometimes he almost seemed to scorn the upper class. i know he didn't but he sought out those that need his help.

Who do i seek out that is unlikeable or uncouth?? I have to honestly say no one since I started working full time at the Glen. I have hung out with people who do not meet the churches standard of perfect people, but then again if you are not decently well of many times it seems as if there is no place for you in the church. i think that most of the people I have met at church are pretty well off they are not in poverty, and if you do not wear nice close will you get thrown out. I was thinking that as an experiment at peirced we should have one of us not shower for a couple days and dress up as a homeless guy and see how people react. I'm sure it has already been tried but how would people react. How would I react if I was not a participant in the experiment. Would I embrace the homeless guy if he came up to me or just shrug him off and go the other way.

Witnessing is just showing people there need for Christ not preaching.